Why Choose Debate Academy?

Built For Debate Teams

Add your entire team to utilize social features such as forums, leaderboards, and collaboration.

Automated Teaching

Built in grading, reporting, assignments and notifications for students.

Increase Wins

We make it possible to ensure all of your debaters know how to win from the very beginning!

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“Introduction To Policy Debate” is intended for students to attain basic novice level skills required to be a competitive first year debater.

Students who have less than one year of debate knowledge should start with this course. At Debate Academy, we have sequenced lessons to ensure that you learn the material from the ground up. Start learning today from our debate specialists by watching lectures, reviewing power points, practicing with interactive modules, and checking your understanding with quizzes! All of the tools to become a champion policy debater are at your finger tips–what are you waiting for?

The Team

Nick Locke

Educator and Coach

“My goal is to empower students and give them a foundation of knowledge to last their entire debate career. After debating competitively in high school and college, I knew that I had to continue my involvement in the activity. Since then, I have been teaching debate for almost a decade at a myriad of Chicago Public Schools. Debate Academy is about synthesizing my passion for the sport, my experience with diverse students, and my expertise as a high school English teacher to make debate knowledge universal and accessible to all students.”

John Connor

Web Strategist

“As a former CDL debate champion, coming from an underprivileged school, I experienced first hand how radical of an impact debate can have on a student’s life. I’ve been working on various community education projects for almost 10 years, from the Chicago Free Skool to founding a peer-to-peer education platform called HelpWith.co. I’m now working to utilize my successful experience in web strategy and community building to help bring a top tier debate education to any student looking to compete. ”